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Friday, March 31, 2017

Golan Heights, Israel, Oil and Trump

Events are moving rapidly to a possible new war involving Israel,
the United States, Syria and Russia. Were it to take place, I honestly
hope not, it would be yet another stupid war over oil. Only this oil war
somehow feels far more dangerous than the US war against Iraq or Libya
or previous oil wars. It’s about the part of Syria named the Golan
Heights.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first heads
of government to go to the United States to meet Donald Trump on
February 16, in Trump’s new role as President. After the event major
media focused on the themes of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the
Iran nuclear deal or a Palestine two-state solution.
Virtually no mention was made by CNN or other US mainstream media of the most strategic point the two discussed. Netanyahu asked the US President to recognize the Israeli illegal occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights,
something no US President has done since Israel openly declared it theirs in 1981.
What has unfolded in the region since Netanyahu’s February 16 Trump
talks gives reason to believe the US and Netanyahu’s Israel covertly
agreed to a strategy to allow Trump to recognize Israel as the de facto
occupier of Golan Heights amid what they will call the growing chaos of
the Syrian “civil war.”
Two weeks following Netanyahu’s Washington talks the Jerusalem Post
wrote about the real issue discussed between the two leaders: “The
biggest news to come out of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to
Washington is not what’s grabbing most headlines. Rather, it’s his
decision to ask the US to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.”
The Israeli paper went on to argue, “the risk of returning the Golan
Heights should be measured against the fact that Iran is actively
setting up another forward command along Israel’s border with
Syria…Capitalizing on Netanyahu’s idea will help the US limit Russia’s
reemergence as a Middle East power broker after a 40-year absence.”
Israel, in violation of the UN Charter, illegally occupied the Golan
Heights after the Israeli army took it in the 1967 Six Days War. When
Israel declared applicability of Israeli law in the territory and began
Israeli settlements in a de facto act of annexation of Golan Heights in
1981, the UN Security Council passed UN Resolution §497, which declared
that, “the Israeli decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and
administration in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is null and void and
without international legal effect.”
Until now the official US Government position has been that the
Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights is a violation of the Fourth
Geneva Convention’s prohibition on the acquisition of territory by
force, and in contravention of the United Nations Security Council
Resolution §242 passed in November, 1967 which mandates, “Withdrawal of
Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent (1967-w.e.)
conflict.”

Location of the Syria Golan Heights annexed by Israel in 1981 in violation of UN Resolution 242

Some days after Netanyahu left Washington, in an OpEd in the Rupert
Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director of the
Washington pro-Israel think-tank, Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies, argued that American recognition of Israel’s control of the
Golan “would provide the Israeli government with a diplomatic win while
helping the Trump administration signal to Russia and Iran that the US
is charting a new course in Syria.” Dubowitz is an adviser to the Trump
Administration on Iran and the Middle East.
Other neo-conservative editorials echoed the theme. There is big change
brewing in Washington and it looks ugly in terms of a possible
US-backed war with Israel against Russia ally, Syria, over the Golan
Heights. That immediately poses the question what Russia would do if it
materializes.

Tillerson’s Strange ‘Global Coalition’

Against the backdrop of the Netanyahu talks on US recognition of
Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, the ensuing events begin to
make strategic sense, mad though they may be.
On March 22 in Washington US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
convened a US Ministerial conference of something the Trump
Administration calls the Global Coalition Working to Defeat ISIS. The
State Department said that a combined 68 nations and organizations were
present. Washington explicitly stated that the three most important
states with deep interest in defeating ISIS in Syria and the three
parties essential to any serious move to dislodge ISIS in Syria– Russia,
Iran and Syria–were not welcome. When asked, Secretary of State
Tillerson quipped, “they’re not part of the global coalition.” Curious indeed.
In his remarks Tillerson declared that US policy of the Trump
Administration will be to “the regional elimination of ISIS through
military force. The military power of the coalition will remain where
this fraudulent caliphate has existed in order to set the conditions for
a full recovery from the tyranny of ISIS.” In other words, a US-led
permanent occupation of the ISIS-controlled areas of Syria. That echoes a
recent Pentagon RAND report calling for the permanent partition of
Syria by Turkey, Syrian “opposition” and US.
Israeli intelligence, in a recent annual evaluation, concluded that
Hezbollah was not interested in sparking a war in 2017, but it warned
of the danger of a “dynamic of escalation” leading to conflict. The
Times of Israel also reports that the Netanyahu government has drawn up
something codenamed Operation Safe Distance in which “up to 250,000
civilians cleared out of border communities if they come under major
attack by…Hezbollah.” That “dynamic of escalation” appears to be precisely what Netanyahu’s IDF is engaged in in the Golan Heights.
The next act in the clearly staged Netanyahu Golan Heights drama
aimed at isolating Russia as defender of the Assad Syrian regime, was
the illegal air strike by Israeli air force F-16 jets against a major
site outside Damascus, Syria. Israel claimed the site was a Hezbollah
weapons depot. Some hours alter on March 19 an Israeli drone hit a
vehicle in the Golan Heights carrying Yasser al-Sayed who was killed on
the spot. Sayed was reportedly a commander of a pro-regime militia and
was close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Bashar al-Assad responded
to the Israeli strikes inside Syria by firing S-200 missiles at the
Israeli air force planes.
When an Israeli Arrow air defense missile intercepted the Syrian
SA-5 missile fired against the invading Israeli Air Force jets as they
left Syria, Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman declared to the
press, Israel “will not hesitate” to destroy Syria’s air defense systems
if that country ever again targets IAF jet fighters. That of course would bring Russia, provider of the Syrian air defense systems, into the developing fray.
DebkaFile.org, openly close to the Israeli military and Israeli
intelligence, is claiming that Yasser al-Sayed was “on his way to join
the Hezbollah forces” grouping at the Lebanon-Syria Golan Heights, under
Iranian direction, preparing for a full war on Israel. DebkaFile
writes, “Israel can be expected to intervene again to put a stop to this
dangerous Russian-Iranian-Hezbollah ploy to exploit the turbulence in
Syria for allowing Israel’s enemies to grab forward assault positions in
Syria.”

A Revealing Moshe Dayan admission

Israel is carefully setting the propaganda stage that will now let
it claim that a coalition of Russia, Iran, Syria and Hezbollah are
preparing to forcefully retake the Syrian Golan Heights from the illegal
Israeli occupiers. It’s a tried and tested Israeli IDF method of
provoking an opponent, here Syria, then using the opponent’s predictable
reaction to provocation as pretext for military strikes that escalate a
confrontation they, the IDF, initiated in the first place.
In an off-record discussion with an Israeli journalist in 1976
before his death, Israeli General Moshe Dayan, who gave the order in the
1967 War to take the Golan Heights, admitted that it was deliberate
Israeli provocations into Syrian Golan lands that gave Israel the
manufactured pretext to invade and occupy.
Dayan told that to journalist Rami Tal, who kept his notes secret
for 21 years until persuaded after Dayan’s death by Dayan’s daughter and
others that it was important to publish the Dayan admission. The
Israeli journalist wrote that when Tal claimed to Dayan that the Golan
Heights were vital for Israeli security, Dayan interrupted him: “Never
mind that. After all, I know how at least 80 percent of the clashes
there started…It went this way: We would send a tractor to plow some
area where it wasn’t possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area,
and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they
didn’t shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance farther, until in the
end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use
artillery and later the air force also, and that’s how it was.”
Today a similar provocation game is clearly in motion with
provocative illegal Israeli jet strikes near Damascus and drone attacks
in Golan Heights. The new element this time is the decided more
Israel-friendly stance of the Trump Administration compared to that of
Obama.
But there is another element Dayan was not aware of in the Syrian
Golan Heights. What no one is openly discussing is the treasure that
Israel’s Netanyahu is lusting after in the Golan Heights–Oil, huge,
recently-discovered reserves of black gold in the Golan Heights.

Genie Energy and Golan Oil

The Israeli subsidiary of a Newark, New Jersey oil company, Genie
Energy, has been given permission to drill for oil on the Golan Heights.
As I noted in a piece published on NEO in 2015, Genie Energy is no
“penny stock” run-of-the-mill oil company. Its board of Advisors
includes Dick Cheney. It includes former CIA head and chairman of the
above-mentioned Foundation for Defense of Democracies, James Woolsey. It
includes Jacob Lord Rothschild of the London banking dynasty and a
former business partner of convicted Russian oil oligarch, Mikhail
Khodorkovsky. Before his arrest Khodorkovsky secretly transferred his
shares in Yukos Oil to Rothschild.
Further this little-known Newark, New Jersey oil company board
includes former US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, pro-Israel media
mogul and owner of Trump’s favorite Fox News TV, Rupert Murdoch. Also on
the board are former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and hedge fund
billionaire Michael Steinhardt. Steinhardt, a philanthropic friend of
Israel and of Marc Rich, is also a board member of Woolsey’s neo-con
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which advises Trump among
other things that it would be good for Washington to recognize Israel as
legitimate owner of the Golan Heights lands taken by Dayan in the 1967 War.
The plot thickens indeed.
Genie Energy, tied to Netanyahu, to Trump, to a reportedly huge oil
find in the illegally-occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Something very ugly
is being brewed between Washington and Tel Aviv and Newark, New Jersey.
Genie Energy in 2013 was granted exclusive oil and gas exploration
rights to a 153-square mile radius in the southern part of the Golan
Heights by the Netanyahu government.
On October 8, 2015 only days after the surprise Russian announcement
it had accepted the request of the elected Bashar al-Assad government
to militarily intervene against ISIS, Al Qaeda and other terrorists in
Syria, Genie Energy made a major announcement. Yuval Bartov, chief
geologist from Genie Energy’s Israeli subsidiary, Afek Oil & Gas,
told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that his company had found a major oil
reservoir on the Golan Heights: “We’ve found an oil stratum 350 meters
thick in the southern Golan Heights. On average worldwide, strata are 20
to 30 meters thick, and this is 10 times as large as that, so we are
talking about significant quantities.”
On January 10, 2017, Genie Energy Ltd. announced it was creating a
new company, Atid Drilling Ltd., an on-shore drilling services venture
based in Israel to drill for oil in the Golan Heights among other
places. They will expand the drilling by Genie Energy’s subsidiary Afek
Oil & Gas which since the October, 2015 announcement has completed
five exploratory wells in Golan Heights.
The creation of Atid Drilling by Genie confirms they are convinced
based on the preliminary drilling results that there is something “big”
in Golan. A month later, in mid-February soon after Trump is sworn in as
President, Netanyahu flies to Washington to discuss US recognition of
Israel’s annexation of Golan Heights.
A few weeks later, Israel violates the Syrian airspace in an act of
war, escalating tensions over the Golan Heights. Then on March 22, in an
appearance before the US Senate Defense Appropriations Committee,
Defense Secretary James Mattis called for Congress to formally authorize
use of US military force against ISIS/DAESH in Syria.
It is becoming increasingly clear than unless there is some very
careful rethinking on the part of Washington and of Israel, we might
find ourselves in another war for oil in of all places the Golan
Heights, this one a war involving Syria, Russia, Iran, Lebanon’s
Hezbollah on one side and Israel and Rex Tillerson’s 68 nation
“anti-ISIS coalition” on the other side, another senseless war over
control of oil.

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he
holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a
best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online
magazine
“New Eastern Outlook”

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

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Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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